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To: let who wrote (1069)	6/9/1999 6:36:00 AM
From: Jon Siegel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1200

Does anyone have a feel for how Oracle's purchase of Thinking Machines, for the purpose of getting into Data Mining, might affect Sand? From my layman's standpoint it looks like direct competition, even from the solutions standpoint. Is anyone in the database/data- mining business familiar enough with both companies products to give an idea of how they stack up against each other? The below article begins: "Oracle Corp.(Nasdaq:ORCL - news) Monday said it bought the assets and technology of closely held Thinking Machines Corp., a pioneer of sophisticated software that seeks to predict customer behavior and buying patterns. dailynews.yahoo.com